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Tutorial: Building Your First Flash Application
You now see the completed tutorial application in the Flash authoring
environment.
3.
After you have the file open, you can explore the Stage, the Library
panel, and the Timeline.
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On the Stage you will see a variety of graphic shapes, which you
will learn to create later in this tutorial.
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In the Library panel, you will see a list of symbols, or reusable
assets, that the document uses.
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In the Timeline, you will see a representation of how and when
those symbols appear on the Stage.
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In the Actions panel, you will see ActionScript code that controls
navigation in the Flash document and imports image files for
display when the Flash document plays.
You will learn more about the role of each of these parts of Flash as you
complete the tutorial.
4.
When you are finished viewing the finished document, close it and be
sure not to save any changes to the file.
Create a working folder
Before you begin, you must create a working folder that includes the
sample files used in the tutorials in
Getting Started with Flash
. This task
consists of creating the working folder on your hard disk and copying the
sample files from the Flash application folder to the working folder.
1.
Create a new folder called local_sites somewhere on your hard disk. For
example, create a folder called local_sites in either of the following
locations:
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(Windows) C:\Documents and Settings\
your_user_name
\
My Documents\local_sites
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(Macintosh)
Hard Disk
/Users/
your_user_name
/Documents/
local_sites
On the Macintosh, there’s a folder called Sites already in your user
folder. Don’t use that Sites folder as your local folder; the Sites folder is
where you place your pages to make them publicly accessible when
you’re using the Macintosh as a web server.
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Summary of Contents for FLASH 8-GETTING STARTED WITH FLASH
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